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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780141185330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784878252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784878467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784877187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex
When Andre joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780099499381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'
First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqu book that became a runaway success.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780099595731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER
ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID
'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'.
(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784870386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES
When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780007204656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780241475232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784879884
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781784879907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781565845602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: The New Press
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Called "intimate, intelligent, and sincere" by "The New Yorker, " the more than 300 love letters written by Beauvoir to Algren after their love-at-first-sight meeting in 1947 are collected for the first time. 16 photos.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781611454987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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The author and his wife formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and served as a model of openness and honesty for countless men and women. This title traces the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781804270448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2023
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother's death.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780007204649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoirs first novel a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780241696453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780007203949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this examination of post-War French intellectual life, and a chronicle of love and philosophy.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780099914907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
UK Publication Date: 21st January 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The publication of de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre caused a storm of controversy in Paris in 1990. Frank and uncensored, they show her experimenting with her freedom within her love for Sartre, and trace the emotional and triangular complications of her life with him.
(Hardback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781857151374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 18th March 1993
Publisher: Everyman
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THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.
